Prince Harry has lost a court appeal to restore his police protection in the UK.
The country’s Parliament removed his high-level security detail when he left official duties in the Royal Family and moved to the U.S.
In an interview with the BBC, Harry said the legal proceedings were a “good old-fashioned establishment stitch-up” and questioned whether the Government “want[s] to keep [his family] safe”.
Prince Harry
Harry, the Duke of Sussex and fifth in line to the British Throne, married his partner Meghan Markle in 2018.
In 2020, the pair announced they were stopping official royal duties and moving out of the UK because they “were not being protected by the institution.”
In response to their leaving their positions, the UK Government decided Harry and Meghan would not receive the “same degree” of police protection.
Lawsuit
Harry initially launched a case against the UK Government in 2021, which failed last year.
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He appealed this outcome.
Harry’s lawyers argued that his current security arrangements were inadequate, citing incidents
such as an al-Qaeda call for his assassination and a paparazzi chase in New York in 2023.
The Government’s lawyers have argued Harry is provided security some of the time, citing protection he was given at an event in June 2021.
Update
On Friday, three judges at England’s Court of Appeals rejected Harry’s case.
Justice Geoffrey Vos said the Government’s original decision to offer Harry security protection during his visits to the UK on a “case-by-case basis” was made with “good reason,” because he was “not in a [similar] position to certain other VIPs for whom protection is provided”.
The judges came to the conclusion that they “could not say the Duke's sense of grievance translated into a legal argument for a challenge.”
It means Harry and his family will not be provided the level of protection given to other members of the Royal Family.
In a statement, Harry said the decision “comes from the same institutions that preyed upon my mother, that openly campaigned for the removal of our security, and that continue to incite hatred towards me, my wife and even our children”.
